![]() Groundlings member Deanna Oliver was given the part of the Toaster, the leader of a group of distinctively male-voiced appliances. ![]() And they included darker themes, scarier sequences, and subtle mature humor because they were no longer under Disney's constraints.Īlso, in a bold move that not a lot of people realize, they made their unconventional Toaster hero a female. They assembled many improvisers from the well-respected Groundlings troupe (including Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman, both virtual unknowns at the time) to voice and ad lib for the characters. This gave it an odd stasis of being an non-Disney film (although the company would later retain the rights for sequels and distribution) made by Disney workers.īecause the creators were saddled with an inferior animation department (whose quality could only reach the heights of a Disney animated television show at the time), they doubled down on crafting the best story and getting the best cast they could with their slashed budget. Spearheaded by animators and writers who would eventually found Pixar, the film couldn't find the proper backing from the studio for its lofty goals and instead was handed over to an independent animation studio Hyperion Pictures with ex-Disney members. In 1982, the film rights were purchased by Disney and it was on its way to become the first fully computer animated film. The film was based on a 1980 novel that had been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction with the subtitle A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances. I can't remember how old I was when I first caught The Brave Little Toaster but I do have very early memories of it and it quickly became a favorite. ![]() When I was a child, there were certain movies that I didn't own, but I always made sure to watch whenever I happened to catch them on television. ![]()
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